Jubail refinery to start in December 2013

September 13/2011

(Arabian oil and gas) -- Saudi
Aramco Total Refinery and Petrochemicals Company (Satorp) expects its new
refinery at Jubail in Saudi Arabia to be fully operational in December 2013, the
joint venture's chief executive said on Tuesday, according to a Reuters report.
The USD 14 billion Jubail facility is part of the Kingdom's plan to almost
double its refining capacity.

"Overall Engineering, Procurement and Construction work at the refinery
is 68% complete," Fawwaz Nawwab, CEO of Satorp, told reporters in the Saudi
capital Riyadh.

Nawwab said that although the refinery was designed to process 400,000
barrels per day (bpd), Saudi Aramco had committed to supply it with up to
440,000 bpd.